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themselves and advantage to their country. In the mean time he would take upon himself, and execute to the best of his ability, the management of public affairs in the capacity of Regent, and wished that nothing should be resolved upon respecting himself until the new constitution should be drawn up and presented for adoption.

His royal highness retired from the assembly amid loud and reiterated acclamations.

To morrow a committee for draw ing up the new constitution will be chosen, and when they shall have terminated their labours, it is supposed that the states will declare themselves in favour of his royal highness, and indeed it would appear to be the general wish of the nation to see the crown upon the head, and the sceptre in the hand, of a man of such consummate wisdom and tried patriotism.

Dispatches have been received at the Admiralty, from Admiral Cochrane, which state, that on the night of the 7th of April, the three French line-of-battle ships, which took shelter in the harbour of the Saintes, made a dash through one of the Passages, while the frigates ran through the other. Our ships immediately pursued them, and on the 10th, in the morning, under Porto Rico, his Majesty's ship Pompee came up with the Hautpoult, a new 74, and after a severe action obliged her to strike. The Pompee bad 7 killed, and 29 wounded; the Hautpoult had between 80 and 90 killed and wounded.-The two other French ships were pursued by two of our squadron through the Mona Passage. The particulars of the above action are stated in the Gazette of the 22d.

The same Gazette contains a letter from Capt. Dolling, of his Majesty's sloop the Trompeuse, giving an ac-, count of his having, on the 15th

inst. in company with the Badger sloop, fallen in with eleven of the enemy's gun-schuyts, standing to the eastward from Boulogne. On the approach of his Majesty's sloops, the enemy endeavoured to put into Ambleteuse; but three of their vessels having overshot that harbour, were obliged to go round Cape Grisnez, and were attacked in the night by the boats of the Trompeuse and Badger, under the direction of Lieut. Strong, of the former; two of them; mounting two long six-pounders and two howitzers, with 13 men each, were boarded and brought out under a heavy fire from the enemy's batteries and musketry on the beach, and the third was driven amongst the rocks, were she appeared to be rendered useless. One person belonging to the Trompeuse was wounded; the enemy had 2 wounded, and 6 threw themselves into the water.

The above Gazette contains an order in council,extending the blockade of ports under the controul of France to the Eastern as well as the Western Ems, and to prevent all vessels from sailing into or out of that river by any channel to the Westward of the island of Juyst,

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

Downing Street, May 24.

A dispatch, of which the following is, lieut.-general the Right hon. Sir Arthur a copy, was received this evening from Wellesley, by Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state.

Oporto, May 12, 1809.

My Lord-I had the honour to ap that I intended that the army should prize your lordship, on the 7th instant, march on the 9th from Coimbra to dispossess the enemy of Oporto.

The advanced guard and the cavalry had marched on the 7th, and the whole had halted on the 8th to afford time for Marshal Beresford with his corps to fantry of the army was formed into arrive upon the upper Duero. The inthree divisions for this expedition, of which two, the advanced guard, con sisting of the Hanoverian Legion and

Brigadier General R. Stewart's brigade, with a brigade of six pounders and a brigade of three pounders, under lieut. Gen. Paget, and the cavalry under lieut. Gen. Payne, and the brigade of guards; Brig.Gen. Campbell's and Brig.Gen -brigades of infantry, with a brigade of six pounders, under Lieut.Gen Sherbrooke, moved by the high road from Coimbra to Oporto, and one composed of Major General Hill's and Brig. Gen. Cameron's brigades of infantry, and a brigade of six pounders, under the command of Major General Hill, by the road from Coimbra to Aveiro.

On the 10th, in the morning, before daylight,, the cavalry and advanced guard crossed the Vouga with the intention to surprise and cut off four regiments of French cavalry, and a battalion of infantry and artillery, cantoned in Albergaria, Nova, and the neighbouring villages, about eight miles from that river, in the last of which we failed; but the superiority of the British cavalry was evident throughout the day; we took some prisoners, and their cannon from them; and the advanced guard took up the position of Oliviera. On the same day Major General Hill, who had embarked at Aveiro on the evening of the 9th, arrived at Ovar, in the rear of the enemy's right; and the head of Lieut.Gen.Sherbrooke's division passed the Vouga on the same evening. On the 11th, the advanced guard and cavalry continued to move on the high road towards Oporto, with Major General Hill's division in a parallel road, which leads to Oporto from Ovar. On the arrival of the advanced guard at Vendas Novas, between Sonto Re dondo and Grijon, they felt in with the outposts of the enemy's advanced guard, consisting of about 4000 infantry, and some squadrons of cavalry, strongly posted on the heights above Grijon, their front being covered by woods and broken ground. The enemy's left flank was turned by a movement well executed by Major Gen. Murray, with Brig.Gon. Langworth's brigade of the Hanoverian legion; while the 19th Portuguese regiment of Brig.Gen. Richard Stewart's brigade attacked their right, and the rifle men of the 95th, aud the flank companies of the 29th, 43d, and 52d of the same brigade under Maj. Way, attacked the infantry in the woods and village in their center, These at

tacks soon obliged the enemy to give way; and the hon. Brig. Gen. C. Stewart led two squadrons of the 16th and 20th dragoons, under the command of Major Blake, in pursuit of the enemy, and destroyed many, and took many prisoners. On the night of the 11th. the enemy crossed the Duero, and destroyed the bridge over that river.

It was important, with a view to the operations of Marshal Beresford, that I should cross the Douro inmediately; and I had sent Major General Murray in the morning with a battalion of the Hanoverian legion, a squadron of cavalry, and two sixpounders, to endeavour to collect boats, and, if possi ble, to cross the river at Ovintas, about four miles above Oporto; and I had as many boats as could be collec ted brought to the ferry, immediately above the towns of Oporto and Villa Nova.

The ground on the right bank of the river at this ferry is protected and commanded by the fire of cannon, placed on the height of the Sierra convent at Villa Nova, and there appeared to be a good position for our troops on the opposite side of the river, till they should be collected in sufficient num bers.

The enemy took no notice of our collection of boats, or of the embarka tion of the troops, till after the first battalion (the Buffs) were landed, and had taken up their position under the command of Lieut.Gen. Paget on the opposite side of the river. They then commenced an attack upon them, with a large body of cavalry, infantry, and artillery, under the command of Marshal Soult, which that corps most gallantly sustained, till supported, suc cessively by the 48th and 66th regiments; belonging to Major Gen. Hill's brigade, and a Portuguese battalion, and afterwards by the first battalion of detachments belonging to Brig. Gen. Richard Stewart's brigade. Lieut.Gen. Paget was unfortunately wounded soon after the attack commenced, when the command of these gallant troops devolved upon Major Gen. Hill.

Although the French made repeated attacks upon them, they made no impression, and at last Major General Murray having appeared on the enemy's left flank on his march from Ovintre, where he had crossed, and Lieut.Gen. Sherbrooke, who by this time had

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availed himself of the enemy's weakness
in the town of Oporto, and had crossed
the Douro at the ferry, between the
towns of Villa Nova and Oporto, having
appeared upon the right with the bri-
gade of guards, and the 29th regiment,
the whole retired in the utmost confusion neral Miranda, of a plot having re-
towards Amaranthe, leaving behind

The return of ordnance, consists of 100 different pieces of cannon, serviceable and unserviceable, and sundry inferior stores.

Brig.Gen. the Hon. Charles Stewart then directed a charge by a squadron of the 14th dragoons, under the command of Major Hervey, who made a successful attack on the enemy's rear guard.

In the different actions with the enemy, of which I have above given your lordship an account, we have lost some, and the immediate services of other

valuable officers and soldiers. In Lieut.

Gen. Paget, among the latter, I have lost the assistance of a friend, who had been most useful to me in the few days which had elapsed since he had joined the army. He had rendered a most important service at the moment he received his wound, in taking up the position which the troops afterwards maintained, and in bearing the first brunt of the enemy's attack. Major Hervey also distinguished himself at the moment he received his wound in the charge of the cavalry on this day.

Accounts are received by the Ge

them five pieces of cannon, eight am-cently been discovered, formed by munition tumbrils, and many prisoners. the negroes of Jamaica, to set fire to The enemy's loss in killed and wounded the towns of that island, and afterin this action has been very large, and wards to murder the white inhabithey have left behind then in Oporto tants, to effect a revolution, precise700 sick and wounded. ly similar to that which has so fatally prevailed in the neighbouring island of St. Domingo. For this purpose, various societies had been formed in different parts for a con siderable time past, which met in the night at appointed places, where they were regularly exercised to the use of arms like soldiers. St Patrick's Day had been first agreed upon to set fire to the city of Kingstou, in several parts, commencing at a Mr. Millward's, liquor-shop, in Upper Kingstreet, which was to be the signal for the other parties to begin; but some disappointment arising, it was afterwards fixed for the end of March; the plot was however discovered by George Burgess, a private in the 2d. West India regiment, a deserter, who had been admitted to their meetings. Burgess being apprehended and tried for desertion was condemned to be shot; but the evening befde his execution he revealed the whole conspiracy: a considerable number of the conspirators were seized, and on the 1st of April, at a slave court assembled for the purpose, at the court house, in Kingston,-two of the principal conspirators, negroes, were tried, one named Peter Watkins, (commander in chief,) and the other Sambo John (a captain); when, afvestigation, they were found guilty ter a most patient and impartial inof being concerned in a rebellious conspiracy, and sentenced to be hung the same afternoon, which sentence was carried into execution.

I cannot say too much in favour of the officers and troops. They have marched in four days over 80 miles of most difficult country, have gained many important positions, and have engaged and defeated three different bodies of the enemy's troops.

[Here follows the commendations of the conduct of different officers.]

I have the honour to be, &c. ARTHUR WELLESLEY. Abstract of the killed, wounded, and missing in actions with the advanced posts, May 10 and 11.

19 killed, 66 wounded, 15 missing. Total 100. 1 officer killed, and 4

wounded. In the action with Marshal Soult, May 12. 23 rank and file killed; 2 general and staff officers; 3 majors, 2 Captains, 3 lieutenants, 1 serjeant, 85 rank and file wounded; 2 missing.

total 121.

TRIAL OF ADMIRAL HARVEY.

The Court Martial on Rear Admiral Harvey, one of the representatives for the county of Essex, for charges set forth in a letter from Lord Gambier, dated April 4, took place, on Monday, the 22d inst. on board the Gladiator, in Portsmouth harbour.

The order for assembling the court, and Lord Gambier's two letters, were read, which contained complaints of the most violent and insulting language used towards his lordship, for his supposed neglect of Admiral Harvey in not appainting him to the command of the expedition of the fire ships, and for which service Lord Cochrane it appears was expressly chosen by the admiralty board: other instances of supposed neglect on the part of Lord Gambier, likewise drew forth language so insulting from the Rear Admiral, that his lordship observes" 1 never in my life received so "much insult to wound my feelings so "sharply, as on the present occasion." His lordship requested to be relieved from the embarrassing situation in which he was placed by the officer second in command, and urged the necessity of a court martial being held on his conduct" for having spoken of the charac ❝ter and conduct of his lordship at "different times, in an unofficer-like "and contemptuous manner, tending to "subvert the discipline of the fleet, "much to the prejudice of the public "service."

Lord Gambier was first sworn and examined, whose evidence proved Rear Admiral Harvey's insulting treatment, as stated in his letters.

Sir H. Neale, Lord Cochrane, Capt. W. Bedford, and Capt. Bowen, were severally sworn. Their evidence uniformly agreed with that given by the commander in chief. Lord Cochrane, in addition to what the other witnesses deposed, as to the rear admiral having declared Lord Gambier to be unfit to command a fleet, &c. observed that in the course of conversation he said, "not "that Lord Gambier was, but I am no hypocrite, no canting methodist, no psalm singer. I do not cheat old women out of their estates by hypo"crisy and canting." Capt. Bedford

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The prosecution closed on Monday, the court adjourned, and met again the next morning; when Rear Admiral Harvey was called on for his defence. He addressed the court respectfully, but did not attempt to justify his conduct; he said it was excess of zeal, and impatience of restraint when an opportunity of enterprise presented, that led him off his guard; he thought himself ill treated, by not being permitted to conduct the fire ships against the enemy, in the destruction of their ships.He said he had offered to make any apology to Lord Gambier consistent with his honour. He produced a letter from Lord St. Vincent to himself, dated 1807, expressing his lordship's satisfaction at Admiral Harvey's conduct, ability, and zeal, in a former service; and also another letter from Lord Collingwood, to (then) Captain Harvey, dated 1805, expressive of his admiration of the conduct of Capt. H. in the engagement with Gravina.

The court was then cleared. ~ After three hours deliberation, they pronounced the following SENTENCE.

"The Court having heard and deliberated upon the evidence which had been adduced in support of the charges exhibited against Rear Admiral Eliab Harvey, and having heard what he had alleged in his defence, are of opinion, that the charges of vehement and insulting language to the Right Hon. Lord Gambier, and of having otherwise shewn great disrespect to him as coinmander in chief, on board his Majesty's ship the Caledonia, and of having spoken of his lordship to several officers in a disrespectful manner, have been proved; and the Court doth therefore adjudge the said Rear Admiral Eliab Harvey, to be dismissed his Majesty's service; and he is dismissed accordingly."-The court was then dissolved,

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